How to reconcile the statement
You have no reason to be hurt with the fact that I am.

“Go ahead and ring it,” said Nurse Linose. “You ring it three times.”

He may be King of the underworld,

but I am Queen

Reading Night Rooms transported me to the dim orange light of my childhood bedroom.

I, like many people, was raised on fairytales

And there were stairs

and they were steep and had to be

climbed to soak in the tub, to lie down.